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Turkey Votes For Stability

Erdogan's AKP party won a landslide victory in Turkey's snap parliamentary elections. In June, tactical voting denied Erdogan a complete power grab, but the AKP still fell short of the number needed to call a referendum. Since then, Turkey has suffered its worst terror attack, the Kurdish ceasefire collapsed leading to increased violence, and concerns about stability returned more votes to the AKP. Erdogan must now demonstrate a willingness to heal divisions and share power in Turkish society.

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Turkey Votes For Stability

Erdogan's AKP party won a landslide victory in Turkey's snap parliamentary elections. In June, tactical voting denied Erdogan a complete power grab, but the AKP still fell short of the number needed to call a referendum. Since then, Turkey has suffered its worst terror attack, the Kurdish ceasefire collapsed leading to increased violence, and concerns about stability returned more votes to the AKP. Erdogan must now demonstrate a willingness to heal divisions and share power in Turkish society.

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Turkey Votes For Stability

Erdogans first task is to demonstrate a willingness to heal the


fissures in a divided society.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Justice and Development Party (AKP) of a
majority has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary polls.
The June verdict saw tactical voting to deny President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a
complete power grab, evidenced by his alleged strategy to turn Turkey into a
de facto one-party state, elevating himself from prime minister to the
ceremonial post of president, which he then planned to empower through a
constitutional amendment.
Yet, despite regaining its majority, the AKP fell short of the number needed to
call a referendum.
AKP got 317/350 seats. 13 short of magic number.
Predicting a hung parliament, experts had emphasised Erdogans need to
learn to share power, since his implacability was seen as the reason behind
the AKPs failure to stitch together a coalition post-June. Much has changed in
Turkey in the intervening months.

Ankara is more involved in the war against the Islamic State in Syria,
even as Turkey suffered its worst terror attack on October 10, when

two suicide bombings at a political rally killed 102 people.


the ceasefire between the government and Kurdish insurgents fell

apart, leading to a spiral of violence.


Circumstances appear to have conspired to return the nationalist vote
to the AKP, which was

hoping to ride concerns about stability and

security, and projected itself as the only party capable of

delivering

on both, apart from promising an economic revival.


Once hailed as a reformist, Erdogans leadership has seen increasing
repression against political opponents and dissidents, including the press. The
AKPs victory has triggered anxieties in minority and liberal quarters,
especially among the Kurdish population. The partys first task is to offer a
message of unity to a divided society. It must also demonstrate a willingness
to break from the narrative of the one-man show that has been the story of
Turkey under Erdogan for the last four years.

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